Category Archives: original artwork

An Oil Painting Class Still Life

Of the most common media available to me as an artist, I have never created an oil painting. So this was my first! A member of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators invited other members to an oil painting instruction class, a room full of experienced professional creative people who all had varied experience in oil […]

New Painting: Spring on the Rocks, Pastel

Spring on the Rocks, pastel on Pastelmat, 5x5, 2026 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

“Spring on the Rocks” features that first flush of color, mosses, ferns, violets, speedwells, and a sprinkling of spring beauties just catching the sun on a rise of limestone draped with last year’s leaves. Yes, a little abstract, just a small, quick sketch, practice, but I think I caught the light and shapes and colors […]

Wandering in the Snow

So was the trail wandering in the snow or was I? Or both of us, me following the trail’s example, though I did step off the trail plenty of times. Today the temperature hit 50 degrees, and the thermometer on my deck actually read 60 degrees for a while, though I could tell when I […]

Angled Winter Sun, Winter Still Life, Fresh and Vintage

Winter Still Life, pastel, 8 x 10, 2014 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

That deeply angled winter sunlight reaches farther into the windows than summer sunlight, into the corner with the fruit bowl. I’ve been looking at the late afternoon sun hitting this vintage ceramic bowl where I keep my apples and enjoying the shapes of the apples, the reflections on the bowl with its uneven design in […]

A Coral Winter Sunset

One February afternoon I caught a surprise winter sunset and shared photos in “I Chased A Sunset”. …and it disappeared over the edge and took a piece of my soul with it. Really, on the way home from a quick errand to a shopping center I encountered a stunning winter sunset just beginning to color […]

Curving Tracks in the Snow

Curving Tracks, Charcoal, 6.25 x 9.5 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

We’ve had some good snows for so early in the season but trains can easily navigate leaving graceful curves in the snow. The landscape is changed to nearly black and white, clear contrasts and every little branch with its tiny frosting of snow. I walk these tracks sometimes. The graceful curve of the tracks in […]

After the Snow Squall

I round this bend frequently and it’s still a preferred route even if it takes a few more minutes to get where I’m going. I still remember when it was the remnants of a Christmas tree farm—see the snow-covered evergreens on the left—and the barn was used as a barn. After a snow squall passed […]

October Sunset After a Storm: How Small Beneath the Sky

The many-faceted history of “How Small Beneath the Sky” I don’t know what it was about this image as a photograph in 2011 that stayed with me from the time I took it. It’s that sense of my tiny self, smaller than one of those dots in the valley below, one of which on the […]

Spring Evening on the Hills

A view out my back window, a theme I’ve returned to so many times, but then, when I walk past one of the windows looking out to the east across the valley it’s already framed like a painting by the window. What an inspiration. Since this view is in the east, this scene shows the […]

Seasons Along the Panhandle Trail, August 23 and 24, 2024

Seasons Along the Panhandle Trail Tenth Annual Exhibit SUN SHADOW ICE & SNOW seasons along the panhandle trail featured artwork “Walk in the Woods” featuring art and photography of the Panhandle Trail plus paintings & sketches from prior exhibits prints of paintings and photos Opening Friday August 23, 2024 5:00 P.M. through Saturday August 24, […]